Polhemus, Robert M. The Changing World of Anthony
Trollope. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.

Smalley, Donald, ed. Trollope: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. This book contains unsigned contemporary reviews of all the novellas, some of these the best that have ever been said about them. Those writing at the time were better able to see that Trollope is superb in a small space too, and writing quite differently in such books.

Vann, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial. New York:
The Modern Language Association of America, 1985. This book includes
detailed explanatory analyses of the divisions of many of the best
known novels of Trollope's era in their original instalment and volumed
publications. For Trollope the reader will find the instalment and
earliest volumed publication of 34 of his novels from Framley
Parsonage through to The Landleaguers. For
the novellas, he includes: The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and
Robinson, Nina Balatka, Linda Tressel, Sir
Harry Hotspur, The Golden Lion, Harry Heathcote,
An Eye for an Eye, Cousin Henry, Dr Wortle's
School, The Fixed Period, and Kept in the Dark.

Wharton, Edith. The Writing of Fiction New York, 1997, pp. 36-38. On short fiction or novellas.

The above general studies are selected out from the general bibliography because of the unusual amount of attention, respect, and real sensitivity with which the authors or the editor's included essays approach Trollope's short novels.

James, Henry. 'Linda Tressel. By the author of Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague. Boston: Little & Gray, 1867. In Henry James: Essays on Literature: American Writers, English Writers. New York: The Library of America, 1984, pp. 1326-1330. First appeared in the Nation, 1868.

James, Henry. 'Linda Tressel. By the author of Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague. Boston: Little & Gray, 1867. In Henry James: Essays on Literature: American Writers, English Writers. New York: The Library of America, 1984, pp. 1326-1330. First appeared in the Nation, 1868.

The Golden Lion of Granpère

Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, pp. 84-85, 88-89, 92, 94-96, 148-512. This includes a discussion and reprint of the original illustrations by Francis Arthur Fraser.

Pigman, G. W., III. 'Introduction', Kept in the Dark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992,, pp. vii-xix. It is unfortunate that the least expensive edition of this novel is prefaced by such an obtuse essay. Pigman has missed the whole point; however, he exemplifies the sort of attitude towards the breaking of sexual taboos described by Freud (see below).

The Fixed Period

Massinger, Philip, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You. London, ca 1618.

Editions of the Novellas or One-Volume Novels

[I list the fictions in chronological order, cited with their number in Trollope's oeuvre and the year Trollope wrote them, followed in parenthesis by the year of publication as a book. I place the best edition first. Criteria for 'best' include returning to the original text, a scholarly introduction and notes, indications of the novel's original divisions, and finally inclusion of original illustrations and matter relevant to contemporary issues in the form of appendices.

There is still no complete scholarly edition of Trollope's novels. I list for the convenience of the reader those editions which are respectable or have some merit (based on a collation of good texts or a good text, having a solid scholarly-critical introduction and notes, containing a reprint of the original illustrations to the novel, having an introductory essay which is of interest for the critical commentary) known to me. I have included a description of the edition if the edition has something which makes it better than the the others on this list. If any reader who comes to this site knows of good editions not cited below, I would be very grateful for information on these, and after checking, would add the citation to the list below.]

-----------------. The Golden Lion of Granpère. New York: Harper and Bros, 1872. This American edition includes the eight full-page, eight half-page and eight quarter-page illustrations by Fraser, each aligned or dropped into precisely the appropriate point in the text. The complete set of twenty-four illustrations were drawn for the serialisation in Good Words which ran from January through August 1872.

-----------------. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. New York: Dover, 1985. A republication of the edition published by Wiliams and Norgate Letd., London of the edition first published serially in Macmillan's Magazine, May-December 1870.